This is a post on how I installed and setup Neovim using LazyVim in my Fedora/Linux machines.

Delete all existing nvim configuration files and cached data. Do this only if you already have a previous configuration of Neovim without using LazyVim.

# required
rm -vrf ~/.config/nvim

# optional but recommended
rm -vrf ~/.local/share/nvim
rm -vrf ~/.local/state/nvim
rm -vrf ~/.cache/nvim

Clone the LazyVim starter template.

git clone https://github.com/LazyVim/starter \
~/.config/nvim

Remove the .git folder then add my nvim GitHub repository’s URL.

rm -vrf ~/.config/nvim/.git

git init
git remote add origin git@github.com:arantebw/nvim.git

Enjoy code editing using the new instance of Neovim!

nvim .

Check the new installation’s status using LazyHealth.

:LazyHealth

In my case, I encountered an error that luarocks was missing, so I need to install it.

wget \
https://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.11.1.tar.gz

tar zxpf luarocks-3.11.1.tar.gz

cd luarocks-3.11.1

./configure && make && sudo make install
# If errors are encountered, follow the next steps.

Check the current version of lua installed.

lua -v

If lua is not installed, then run the following to install it and its dependencies.

sudo dnf install lua lua-devel

Update the plocate database to find the lua required header files.

nice -n 19 ionice -c 3 sudo updatedb
plocate lua.h

These are the files that you need to have to make sure all required header files are installed.

/usr/include/lua.h
/usr/include/lua.hpp

Then, re-run the ./configure command with the --lua-version as an option.

./configure --lua-version=5.4 && make \
&& sudo make install

Finally, install the extras as you need them.

:LazyExtras

LazyVim calls the lazy loaded plugins in your Neovim setup.

That’s it, enjoy code editing with Neovim bootstrapped LazyVim.